Stupid Service

["Tarek M. Nabil" <Ta...@itworx.com>]

Hi everyone,

I'm supposed to be calling some HTTP service to retrieve some information. I used the http client, but when it was time for testing, my logs showed that the service was returning an empty response. I went and tested the service with Netscape, and I got the same results, empty response. So, I thought there must be some problem with that service and my code is fine.

Later on, I went back to see if the guys had fixed it, but this time I used the unix utility "wget". To my surprise, I found out that the response was not empty. The problem is, the service is not returning a valid HTTP response. It's returning the response directly without any headers, and that's why, neither Netscape nor the http client were able to interpret the response.

Now, I'm using the getResponseBodyAsString() to get the response. Is there any other method I can use that will give me the exact response body also as a String?

Thanks :)

Tarek M. Nabil